Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, just at the outset, I'd just like to make it clear to the Members here that the camps we are looking at are the workforce housing camps and they will be around Inuvik -- Little Chicago -- Fort Simpson, around Trout Lake. So those are the four camps we're looking at. There's also going to be camps needed in regards to preconstruction camps. There's going to be camps by way of pioneer camps. There's going to be kitchen facilities, office facilities. There is going to be a major influx of facilities being built for this pipeline. We're only looking at one component, which is the workforce housing.
The camp that you talked about in Hay River, I believe that is there in regards to doing the logistic stuff for loading the barges and getting the pipe on the barges going up the river. So that camp will basically be dealing with the logistics of getting everything into Hay River and everything back out as soon as possible. Again, that is something that's being worked out with the community of Hay River and the business community. We have nothing to do with that, but we have had opportunity to meet with the business community in Hay River, along with the people from ATCO in which they did make them aware that they have some major capacity problems by way of building all this stuff in the South, moving it North, and then moving it again once they get to Hay River. They would just as soon build some of these facilities through portable plants that they can put in place, looking at corridors, kitchen facilities, large facilities that there is going to be a logistical problem getting them from the
South to the North and getting them onto the barge. So they are open to that idea.
We've also talked to them, along with myself and the federal Minister, that there are certain things that we'd like to see as part of this project is to ensure that we have training with regard to the human resource component of the proposal and also energy efficiency. We want to ensure that, at the end of the day, we generate jobs in aboriginal communities to ensure that we have the workforce to be able to do the conversions in those communities and not have to lose out on that opportunity.
Out of this project we estimate that $200 million of those expenditures we're making here will be spent in the Northwest Territories for the logistic cost of transferring these units into communities, site development costs, conversion costs, and also ensuring that we have the human resource people trained and whatnot in communities. They are looking at the possibility of building a training component into their plant so that we can take people to Calgary, train them in their facility, bring them back North and they can do the conversion with the skills that they require through this training proposal that we're developing with them.
So, again, those are some of the scenarios I just wanted to lay out. But again, those four camps we're talking about are slowly going in the Mackenzie Valley and we did not want to disrupt the markets in the larger centres by way of Yellowknife and Hay River and Fort Smith. So we're solely concentrating on the corridor. Thank you.